This is so we can study the details and reference this as we model and shade the individual grass strands. The small scale details are images of a single blade of grass or just a few grass blades together. Maybe the grass grows mostly in the shade or in the sun? In patches or spread out. Things like distribution and environment. This will help us see how a particle system could be set up. With a large scale property, I mean a zoomed out view. What we are looking for is large and small scale properties. Related content: The ultimate reference photos workflow in a nutshell What kind of reference are we looking for? If you want to find out more on how to use Pinterest to find and work with reference effectively, you can read my guide about it here. Next, we take the common names and search for them on Pinterest to find a large selection of reference images.

We can then go to Google and search for the Latin name and append “common name” to the search and find out what common names there are for this specific grass. But the good thing here is that we get an image and a Latin name of the plant. At the time of this writing you will end up with about 1000 images from their database of different grass that you can browse.īe warned that these images are not taken by professional photographers. Then search for “Poaceae” and filter by images. If you just start with a general idea that you want to create grass, finding out the names of some grass species is still a good beginning. So if you have a particular kind in mind, finding out both the common name and the Latin name for your specie is a good start. Like we said in the introduction, there are over 12.000 species. The things we should consider are what kind of grass we want to create. Take your time to prepare and you will save time and headache later. Personally, I often skip or forget this part and jump straight into Blender. With that said, lets see how we can create our own grass in Blender Blender grass referenceīefore we create grass, we need to talk about reference. It does what we are about to get into very well and fast. It is an awesome grass asset pack that I have used for several years. If you are looking for a fast, beautiful and reliable way to add grass to your scenes, check out my review on Graswald. Covering a few tips on distribution, variety, color and light. These are the steps we will cover and at the end we will have a section on what makes nature look good. We just need a good way to recreate it for many of our 3D projects. Apart from that grass looks complex and is everywhere. Poaceae being just another fancy word for grass. That is probably because there are over 12.000 different species in the Poaceae family according to Wikipedia. There are many ways to create grass in Blender.

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